Monday, January 4, 2010

Homework 19; term 2

Using modern world history text pages 30-31, part D "effects of WWII" and other notes and materials, create a 3-way diagram comparing and contrasting political, economic, and social effects of WWII.

Economic Effects:

-Helped America; they could make and sell weapons.
-All countries in Europe were in debt because the war caused their economy to be bad. America helps them out with the Truman Doctrine/Marshall plan.

Social Effects:
-10 million Germans were forced to leave their country.
-In the USSR and Germany, extensive urban redevelopment took place so that urban cities could be rebuilt.

Political Effects:

-Production of nuclear weapons.
-Europe's domination of the rest of the world had ended

Similarities:

-The production of nuclear weapons is both political and economic.
-The end of Europe's domination of the rest of the world was both political and economic.

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